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The Wind's Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose

Author:	Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher:	Gollancz, 2015
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Book Type:	Omnibus
Genre:	Science-Fiction
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Synopsis

Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave readers their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

This is the omnibus edition of the two short story collections The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Graham Sleight

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

• Foreword - (1975) - essay
• Semley's Necklace - (1964) - shortstory
• April in Paris - (1962) - shortstory
• The Masters - (1963) - shortstory
• Darkness Box - (1963) - shortstory
• The Word of Unbinding - (1964) - shortstory
• The Rule of Names - (1964) - shortstory
• Winter's King - (1969) - novelette
• The Good Trip - (1970) - shortstory
• Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette
• Things - (1970) - shortstory
• A Trip to the Head - (1970) - shortstory
• Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - (1971) - novelette
• The Stars Below - (1974) - shortstory
• The Field of Vision - (1973) - shortstory
• Direction of the Road - (1973) - shortstory
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory
• The Day Before the Revolution - (1974) - shortstory

The Compass Rose

• Preface - (1982) - essay
• The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics - (1974) - shortstory
• The New Atlantis - (1975) - novelette
• Schrödinger's Cat - (1974) - shortstory
• Two Delays on the Northern Line - (1979) - shortstory
• SQ - (1978) - shortstory
• Small Change - (1982) - shortstory
• The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb - (1978) - shortstory
• The Diary of the Rose - (1976) - novelette
• The White Donkey - (1980) - shortstory
• The Phoenix - (1982) - shortstory
• Intracom - (1974) - shortstory
• The Eye Altering - (1976) - shortstory
• Mazes - (1975) - shortstory
• The Pathways of Desire - (1979) - novelette
• Gwilan's Harp - (1977) - shortstory
• Malheur County - (1979) - shortstory
• The Water Is Wide - (1976) - shortstory
• The Wife's Story - (1982) - shortstory
• Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time - (1979) - shortstory
• Sur - (1982) - shortstory

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